Chilkat v11.3.0 Release Notes

Pinned December 16, 2025

  The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]

Chilkat v11.2.0 Release Notes

Pinned November 3, 2025

Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]

Semantic Versioning Starting with Chilkat 10.0.0

Pinned September 26, 2024

Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning.   Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes.  […]

Using Microsoft Graph API HTTP Request/Response Documentation to Generate Code

June 20, 2023 in Microsoft Graph

This blog post describes how to use the raw HTTP request/response samples provided in the Microsoft Graph API documentation to generate Chilkat source code in your chosen programming language. First, let’s have a look at one particular request. This is the “Create call” action found in the Teamwork and Communications –> Calls and online meetings […]

Generating Code to Create XMP XML

November 13, 2019 in Uncategorized

The Chilkat Xmp class provides the abililty to insert/update/remove/extract XMP metadata from JPEG and TIFF image files.  In addition, the XMP API provides helper methods to make it easier to construct XML according to XMP specifications.  These methods are usually sufficient, but may lack flexibility to create more complex XMP metadata.  An alternative approach is […]

Choosing Correct C++ Library for Linking

May 28, 2008 in Uncategorized

When linking with a Chilkat C++ library, you must choose the .lib that matches your project’s “code generation” property setting. For example, in VC++ 8.0, these are the Chilkat .lib’s: ChilkatDbg.lib ChilkatDbgDll.lib ChilkatRel.lib ChilkatRelDll.lib If “Dll” is in the library name, it means that you are *not* statically linking with the C runtime libs. Just […]